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At this time in our history, I feel compelled to make a comment regarding Nazi memorabilia.  My deceased husband, Dale Anderson, was a militaria dealer and began this business in 1961.  His sole mission in acquiring these and thousands of other mostly American relics and historical collectibles (he started out as a Civil War specialist) was to pass on pieces of history to those who collected memorabilia of all kinds.  At that time, and up to most recently, history was to be learned from.  If you don't learn history, and erase it from existance, you are doomed to repeat it.  I do not glorify anything Nazi, but do see these items as historical pieces of a despicable past in human history.  In order to see the entirety of WWII, you must include the German component.

This section will contain German material, including pins, rings, badges, Vivat Ribbons and all other miscellaneous items, mostly from the WWI and WWII periods.

At the end of this section, there are photos of small items in groupings.  To save the time and effort of individually describing each item, we decided to group them at various price levels.  If you collect German material, you should have an idea what each item is.  I annotated the photos with words or markings that might not be visible in the photographs, due to lighting or shadows.  You can buy any item in each group, and pay that price per item.  When emailing, please refer to the Price Level, Item Letter and Group # if applicable.  All items are priced at or in many cases, below our original cost.

 

SOME GREAT BARGAINS IN THE GROUPING AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS SECTION

 

1G  -  WWI GERMAN WATCH FOB  4 1/2" long.  Has three hanging discs, each with depictions of military motifs.  One side has a biplane, a Navy ship, a submarine, and charging soldiers.  The other side has an eagle, an iron cross with 1914 and "MITT GOT FUR KAISER UND REICH", a large tree with "WELT IRIEG 1914 1916".  Overall nice detail and condition.  $95

2G  -  WONDERFUL WWII GERMAN SKULL RING WEST WALL  SOLD  Silver stamped "835" under the top.  This is an excellent original skull ring with wonderful designs.  The top has a skull in great detail and crisp.  One side has "WEST" in a banner surrounded by oak leaves and the other side has the word "WALL" with the same oak leaves.  Overall a very crisp ring and absolutely original.  Shows average wear for its age.  $175

3G  -  WWI CROSSED RIFLES PIN  1 1/4" wide x 1/2" tall with a small round dangle below.  Under the crossed rifles is an Iron Cross with black enamel.  Below that is a small circle with the words "FLANDERN" with laurel wreaths around the perimeter.  On the back side are the words "ANDEKEN AN" under an Iron Cross. Nice details to the rifles.  $45

4G  -  WWI GERMAN WAR CARD GAME OF SCHAFKOPF   Deck of 31, lacking a single card.  Box lists count at 32.  It revolves around familiarizing the users with the appearance of all the important persons of the War, starting with Hindenberg, and working down.  Most of the cards have excellent color portraits of WWI personalities, including most generals.  Condition is very excellent.  I can't offer a translation of the considerable text on the box.  A few words of the title are: "Deutsche Kriegs-Spielkarte".  Worth more than the price just for the excellent portraits - all in color.  $75

5G  -  WWI PAIR OF CUFF LINKS KAISER WILHELM  Gold coppery tone to the metal.  Looks like celluloid photo of Kaiser, in good condition for their age.  Some very minute cracking if looked at through a loupe.  5/8" diameter circle.  They are attached to a piece of cardboard which looks like they have been there a while.  $95

6G  -  WWI GERMAN CUFF LINKS KAISER WILHELM  In a jewelry box, which is a bit worn inside and out, but not terrible, considering its age.  Has a decorative border on the front of the cuff link with a bust of Kaiser Wilhelm in the middle.  7/8" tall ovals.  The backs are stamped "D.R.G.M. / D.R.P.a.".  Unsure what that stands for.  $110

7G  -  LARGE AND VERY NICE WWII GERMAN SS RING WITH SKULLS ON THE SIDES  SOLD  830 Silver stamp inside band.  Black enamel circular SS on top in black enamel and the SS runes in silver.  Each side has a skull and cross bones.  Shows expected wear but is excellent and absolutely original.  Approximate size 10.5.  $550

8G  -  LARGE & HEAVY WWII GERMAN SS RING   Simple, yet stylish.  Looks like brass, with black enamel on top, and the SS runes in silver, maybe.  No markings.  Sides have a fluted design.  Absolutely original.  Approximate size 12.5.  $425

9G  -  VERY NICE WWII GERMAN SS RING  SOLD  Lighter weight ring.  Stippled darker background behind the SS runes.  Shows average wear for the period.  Absolutely original.  Approximate size 10.75.  $375

10G  -  WWII GERMAN LUFTWAFFE ANTI-AIRCRAFT OFFICER'S RING  SOLD I believe this is what this ring is...but I'm no expert.  Lightweight with red enamel "wings".  Stamped "GOLDIN" inside the band.  I have no other information on this.  Shows standard wear for its age.  Approximate size 10.  $150

11G  -  WWII GERMAN LADIES BRACELET AND RING WITH SWASTIKA  Nice delicate set.  The braacelet is quite decorative with nubs all around the perimeter and a small swastika within a border.  No markings on the bracelet.  The ring is plain with a simple swastika in the middle.  Stamped "900" underneath.  Approximate size 6.5.  Dale purchased this set together from an auction house many, many years ago.  $145

12G  -  WWI LADIES DELICATE BRACELET  Nice more delicate bracelet with the middle portion being a fancy plate faced with leaves and acorns, featuring a fired enamel Iron Cross at center.  A bit of the bottom of the "9" is missing.  The sides are a mesh material, flexible.  The clasp is missing a piece on one end so it does not latch.  Has the safety chain. Beautiful piece.  $65

13G  -  FINE WWI GERMAN TRENCH ART BRACELET   Jewelry grade bracelet made from the sabot off an artillery shell (brass driving band from an artillery shell).  2 1/2" in diameter and approx. 1/2" wide.  Outer surface shows the grooving made by the passage of the shell through the cannon barrel.  Nicely gilded, showing only a trace of wear.  Top face has an oval decorative plate attached, faced with leaves and acorns, and featuring a fired enamel Iron Cross at center.  Bracelet hinges open for wear.  Opposite the hinge is a latch and safety chain.  Quite attractive.  Practically new condition.  Scarce motif.  $95

14G  -  WWI GERMAN JEWELRY GRADE TRENCH ART  Classic bracelet made from the sabot (brass driving band) of an artillery shell.  This bracelet is 2 1/2" in diameter, and 1/2" wide.  The outer surface has the imprint left from its passage through the rifled bore.  It was nicely finished and gilded, and cut to open on a hinge so it could be put on.  It has a latch opposite the hinge, with a tiny safety chain.  Affixed to one half the outer surface is a fine, fired enamel Iron Cross, flanked with 3-dimensional sprays of oak leaves and acorns.  Inside is a nicely engraved presentation message reading (as far as I can deduce the tiny writing)..."Meiner lieben Johnester zur Erinerung an de Belagerung (?) von Verdun 1914-15 (and 2 initials).  Fine complete condition.  Some wear to the gilt.  $125 

15G  -  CLASSIC WWI GERMAN TRENCH ART BRACELET  Made from the brass sabot from an artillery shell.  Outer surface bears the deep grooves from having passed through the cannon barrel.  2 1/2" in diameter, prox. 1/2" wide.  Brass has an attractive thin brown patina.  Top has fired enamel Iron Cross flanked by oak leaves and acorns - some of the left decoration appears to be missing, but maybe not.  Inside the bracelet are two panels which read (in German) "KRIEGSERINNERUNG 1914 1916" ("Remembrance of the War 1914-1916").  $45

16G  -  1914 KAISER WWI RING  This could be a ladies ring or a man's pinky ring.  Dark bronze color with a bust of the Kaiser in the middle and 19 and 14 on either side.  Approximate size 8.  $45

17G  -  WWI "GOTT MIT UNS" GERMAN CIGARETTE CASE  Nice item.  3" tall x 2 1/4" wide x 1" deep.  Push a buttonon the side, and the two covers on top open to allow you to slip in a cigarette pack.  Quite nicely made with black paint on front and back, and silver metal for the rest of the case.  A nice, large medallion on front with a crown, the words "GOTT MIT UNS" and laurel wreath below.  Some decorative features on the metal.  Most of the black paint is intact,with only some minor loss on the back side.  $95

18G  -  WWI GERMAN MINIATURE MEDALS - ORDERS  Worn by officers at formal occasions.  Suspended from a horizontal fancy gold chain.  Total of 8 orders/medals...little jewels with superb detail, three with fired enamel colors. Each order approx. 5/8" across.  Choice condition.  Charm is affixed to the uniform by a fancy straight pin at each end.  Took considerable searching to obtain such a fine specimen.  $250

19G  -  WWI STICK PIN "Ein Gott, ein Kaiser ein Volk!" - 7/8" diameter celluloid black, white and red stick pin with that phrase "Ein Gott, ein Kaiser ein Volk!"  Translated means "One people, One realm, One leader".  Really excellent condition.  $25

20G  -  WWI GERMAN PATRIOTIC "HOME FRONT" POCKET MIRROR  2" in diameter.  One side of the circular mirror case has a bright 1/4" steel border around a photo which joined two busts - Hindenberg and the Kaiser.  Lifting the face (lid) reveals a circular mirror inside.  Has a wire loop on one end to hang mirror on a nail.  Excellent.  $45

21G  -  WWI GERMAN "GOLD FOR IRON" WATCH CHAIN  12" long.  Heavy iron links separated in three places with solid oval links with text.  Center one features the German eagle and inscriptions on back reading "IN EISERNERZEIT 1916" (Iron Times).  The two other links with inscription are identified and read "GOLD ZUR WEHR / EISEN ZUR EHR" around "1916" (Gold for Iron).  One end has hook for watch and the other has larger one for button hole. Fine condition.  $95

22G  -  WWII GERMAN SWASTIKA RING  The top oval of this ring is white background with wheat sheaf and swastika below with a red border, I believe all fired enamel.  Really excellent condition for its age.  The sides have a simple design and show some wear and normal use.  Approximate size 9.5.  $165

23G  - WWII GERMAN NAVY OR SUBMARINE SWEETHEART BRACELET  A very interesting and sweet item for a wife or girlfriend of a German military man.  A German friend of mine said the translation on the heart is "Greetings from my heart". She also said her father was a German Marine, and this would have been something he would have given her mother.  The bracelet is 7" wide, end to end, and is quite decorative figure 8 with circular links in the middle of each.  In addition to the red enamel heart, there is an anchor with a tiny heart attached, a Bavarian stein; even the lid lifts.  The other side of the stein is a scene of a house in a forest setting.  On the other end is what looks like a torpedo.  With the Navy theme, perhaps this was for a guy on a submarine.  It's a charming charm bracelet, or as my friend said they called them "friendship" bracelets, we called sweetheart.  $35

24G  -  GERMAN TRENCH ART PIN  1 3/4" wide trench art pin, with some very nice decorations.  Over laurel wreaths is a crown and the German and British (I believe) flags over a bow with an Iron Cross dangling below.  Really excellent condition.  $45

25G  -  OVAL PHOTO PIN OF WWI GERMAN SOLDIER  At leat, I think it is WWI.  3/4" wide x 1 1/8" tall.  Gold finish to the setting and the pin on back.  No markings.  Nice, crisp photo.  No identification.  $65

26G  -  WWI GERMAN GOLD FOR IRON PENDANT  Much more substantial than WWII tokens, primarily rings.  This is a 1 9/16" diameter brown black iron disc/pendant.  Has ring on top for neck chain or pin back support.  Has female figure on front, handing over what looks like a necklace.  Front side reads "IN EISERNER ZEIT 1916".  Reverse has further text over small wreath reading "GOLD GAB ICH ZUR / WEHR EISEN / NAHMICHZUR / EHR".  At the very bottom is the word "HOSAEUS".  Excellent.  $15

27G  -  WWI GERMAN RING  Fairly dainty with red, white and black stripes diagonally across the top in fired enamel, and in great condition.  The sides are a bit more worn and have an eagle at the top with oak leaves below.  One side is more worn down.  Approximate size 8.75.  This could be for a lady or a man's pinky finger. Underneath shows where a tag was once stuck on.  $35

28G  -  WWI DAINTY IRON CROSS RING WITH HEARTS  Pleasing ring for a lady.  Bronze color  with a black Iron Cross inthe middle, and a heart on each side over a decorative line.  Approximate size 9.  $65

29G  -  GERMAN WWI PATRIOTIC BRACELET  Beautiful condition.  Top is a squared oval entirely faced with fired enamel in the National colors, red/white/black.  On one segment is the date "1914"...when the War began.  Fairly small size, 2" across, for a girl or young lady.  $95

30G  -  GERMAN MINIATURE LAPEL RIBBONS, BELIEVE WWI   Consists of a red, white and black miniature ribbon tied very much like a bow tie.  Back has small button for attaching to lapel.  Have two, different sizes.  One is 7/8" wide, and the other is 1 1/4" wide...and has gold crossed swords at center on the bigger one.  The largest looks unused.  The other is excellent, just needs minor straightening on ends.  The two...$25

31G  -  OUTSTANDING C.1936 GERMAN CIGARETTE CARD ALBUM  Entitled "DIE BUNTE WELT" (which I believe translates to The Colorful or diverse) World.  Consists of 45 tissue separated pages, each with 6 different, small colored cards, total 270 different cards.  Each pictures some place, person, animal, fish, insect or object of curiosity found over the world and its many cultures.  Completely filled in.  I believe the cards came as a premium with each pack of cigarettes.  Album provides specific place for each card, over an explanation.  Condition of inside is clean, excellent.  Cover has embossed golden image of cathedral type building over the title.  Some edge wear.  Rear cover has some edge tears and 1/2 x 1/4" piece of lower edge torn off.  Exceptional album put out  by the Nazis just prior to WWII.  Book measures 9 5/8 x 11 1/4".  $50

32G  -  1933 GERMAN CIGARETTE CARD ALBUM  A general term for a most unusual and handsome book which has besides printed text, a great number of various sized colored pictures individually glued in their designated spots.  Some of these albums actually were filled with cards obtained as premiums with cigarettes.  This wonderful volume is entitled "DEUTSCHLAND HOCH IN EHREN".  Cover shows a UHLAN with horse.  Content seems to relate German military history from the earliest times to the present (1933).   9 x 13'', thick, stiff paper covers.  66 pages.  I estimate well over 300 color insert pictures, predominantly combat.  Complete.  Clean.  Excellent.  Shows some handling/edge rubbing.  $50

33G  -  WWI GERMAN 1914 VATERLANDSDANK RING  Silver color ring, with the words "1914 VATERLANDSDANK" around the band.  No other markings.  This is an item my deceased husband purchased decades ago, and was part of thousands of rings he acquired as a militaria dealer.  Approximate size 6.25+.  $20

34G  -  WWI GERMAN RING 1914-1916 ISTENNEL  SOLD  Silver color ring, with the words "ISTENNEL + 1914-1916" around the band. The Iron Cross in the middle has red paint and the letters are black.  No other markings.  This is an item my husband purchased decades ago, and was part of thousands of rings he acquired as a militaria dealer.  Approximate size 11.  $25

35G  -  WWII & EARLIER GERMAN COIN BRACELET   Don't know if this was sold as a souvenir during the War, or during Occupation.  It seems appropriate for both.  Bracelet consists of nine brass coins, linked together by a neat loop of wire.  Clasp is a single wire loop.  Coins are all 5 & 10 pfennig, and all but one has eagle on a wreath around a swastika.  All date in the 1930's, but last digit is obscured on most if not all by the hole for the wire link.  One coin is pre-Nazi (1923).  This seems like something a G.I. would like as a souvenir.  Coins are in very excellent condition.  8" long.  $55

36G  -  WWII & EARLIER GERMAN COIN BRACELET  
Nice selection of early German coins from the 1930's with Nazi/swastika design, as far back as 1875 (one coin) and the Imperial Period.  Most are from the 1920's.  There are four Nazi coins, and the rest earlier.  Needs simple "U" shaped wire clasp.  The entire bracelet and coins have tarnished to a coppery brown.  Coins are very good.  Can't say if this was sold to German soldiers, and the general public, or to American soldiers as a souvenir.  Seems appropriate for both.  About 7 1/4" long.  $45

  37G  -  A MASSIVE WALL CALENDAR - LUFTWAFFE 1943  14 1/8 X 17" closed.  It's going to be hard for me to describe properly, so please rely on the photos.  This is not your normal calendar, where a complete month is on one page.  These pages flow from week to week, each month.  Each page has another German airplane, and its name and basic information, in German.  There are Stuka, Junkers, Messerschmitt, Dornier, and many others. There are float planes and transporters.  These are copies of real photographs it looks to me.  The planes have swastikas and many other interesting things to study.  From what I can tell, there are some missing pages of some weeks in some of the months.  There are also three separate pages stuck in the rear, one looks like a week that has the bottom removed.  There is a sticker pasted on the inside back cover, which reads in part: "FARBAUFNAHMEN AGFA-COLOR (then a bunch of names below) Entwurf und Gestaltung: C. Gerger / ------UKTION UND OFFSETDRUCK / CARL WERNER - REICHENBACH i.V. / Gedrucki in Deutschland - Printed in Germany - Imprime en Allemagne".  The cover is a bit rough, and has some old tape repairs.  Dale purchased this in 1988.  It is an amazing thing to look through.  Priced at cost...$250

38G  -  WWI ERA FANCY GERMAN MARITIME BADGE - IN ORIGINAL JEWELER'S CASE  Reading the inside of the lid and what appears as a repeat on the life preserver separate medal is "EHRENWART * DEUTSCHER FLOTTEN-VEREIN" which seems to translate to "HONOR OF GERMAN MECHANIC Flottenverein".  The badge is 3 3/4" tall and begins at top with silver crown and ribband.  Below is a red/white/black ribbon.  Detached from the bottom of the ribbon is a gorgeous nautical pendant - gold anchor at rear, life preserver in front with fired enamel in maroon.  At center is a black eagle.  Top quality.  Ribbon shows lots of handling.  Original case.  $125

39G  -  WWI GERMAN PENDANT WORN AS A PATRIOTIC DISPLAY  Consists of a specially made Iron Cross encircled with a wreath of oak leaves, the standard German decoration.  The Iron Cross is faced with glossy black fired enamel, silver edging to the cross, and interior details such as crown, dates 1914-15, and sprig of oak.  Fine condition.  Has ring at top for neck chain.  Pendant measures 1 1/8".  It was common during the War to wear patriotic pins or pendants with dates.  $40

40G  -  WWI GERMAN 2ND LIEUTENANT RING  Based on a note with this ring from Dale when he purchased it many years ago, I believe it is a 2nd Lt officer ring.  I have no other information on it.  The top has an eagle or bird over 2 stripes.  One side appears to have 1915, but I cannot make out the other side.  Shows typical wear for its age.  $95

41G  -  A SELECTION OF BEAUTIFUL WWI GERMAN or AUSTRIAN VIVAT SILK RIBBONS  From Wikipedia: "These were silk ribbons with printed patriotic messages popular in Germany and Austria during World War I. They celebrated various battles and important events, as well as royalty and the military leaders. They were designed by many famous German artists of the period. Their name was derived from word "Vivat!" ("Live!") printed on most of ribbons. During World War I many ribbons were released by the German Red Cross to raise funds for war relief and had the following text on the bottom "Zum Besten Des Roten Kreuzes; Verlag Amsler u. Ruthardt; Berlin W8" ("To the benefit of the Red Cross; Verlag Amsler & Ruthardt; Berlin W8")." All listed below are in amazing MINT condition. I tried to get as close to the true color, but variations might exist due to lighting conditions during photographing.  Also because they each have been folded in fourths and stored that way, they will need a light ironing.  Therefore, some of the photos will also show shadowing.  Sizes are roughly 2 1/2 x 15 3/4", some slightly shorter.   Each $25...Buy three or more, $20 each

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